Letter to an Iranian Expatriate on the Iranian Question

I
composed this letter especially with you in mind, dear Iranian expat.
living in the West. I feel it might be of at least some interest to
you. Please share it with your many Persian as well as Occidental
friends, colleagues, co-workers, and also family members living in
the West. It examines the Iranian Question which has been
prominent in the Western newsmedia ever since 911. But of late, the
war-rhetoric is rapidly ratcheting up in
many a public relations campaign of the Mighty
Wurlitzer
and is imperiling almost everyone's commonsense.

Many
(but surely not most) Iranians living in the West since the Iranian
Revolution, are the 'Shah' vintage. What that pertinently means is
that some among them are easily harvested as dupes, patsies, and
'native informants' to speak against, and work against, their own
native nation in the name of bringing it “democracy”,
disarming it of its self-defense options, and what have you. This is
of course called “secular humanism” in the West, and
“enlightened moderation” in Musharaf's
Pakistan. Most Iranian authors on the proverbial left, i.e., those
dissenting with empire's barbarianism, are often quite anti-Iran
in Iran's present dispensation.

For them, to
oppose the crimes of empire is not necessarily to also not share in
its aspiration of bringing Iran the West's 'white man's burden',
its 'la mission civilisatrice', or in plain language, “democracy”
western style. A perfect example of this ideological subversion
disguised as lauded dissent is http://velvetrevolution.us(see
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/#091609
, flyer
pdf , protest
video), even assuming it isn't a “Soros”
(also
see) or “CIA
Revolution”.
Many native as well as second generation Iranians are part of this
Hegelian dialectics seeded game, knowingly or unknowingly, as patsies
or mercenaries, only they can tell.

I
have unfortunately discovered that most Iranian authors become either
inadvertently aligned with the hectoring hegemons which naturally
colors their outlook/analysis/perspective on Iran to shades which are
entirely under the same primary color scheme of the aggressors who
wage endless wars – some obviously loud ones with
signature-bombs, but many more silent ones
by way of deception – or are outright ideological mercenaries
and work against Iran. Here is an example of each. Surely one can
come up with one's own favorite names in each category.

Someone
who is ostensibly an anti-imperialist: the young Dr. Trita
Parsi ( see
http://www.tritaparsi.com/bio
). Same with the highly celebrated elder academic and dissent-chief
Dr. Juan Cole (a Bahai) on Informed Comment
( see http://www.juancole.com/about
). If you forensically examine their work, it remarkably retains all
the same sacred-cow axioms of empire, and mainly disagrees (dissents)
with the empire in the “How” and to “what extent”.
In their often erudite commentaries, they analyze the blood drenched
puppet-shows enacted by the empire in great depth, analyze its impact
upon the victims, analyze the victims' options, sometimes blame the
victims intransigence, but to my knowledge,
never proclaim, for instance, that 911 was an inside job, that the
prime-mover of all the tensions and threats to the world is “imperial
mobilization”
and therefore, its prime harbingers, the Hectoring Hegemons, are the
main problem as supreme war criminals; that they would all hang at
Nuremberg; and the issue is not with Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon,
Afghanistan, who are all its victims, or militant Islam, radical
Islam, etc. which is a manufactured
boogieman only to sustain its new transformational war, World
War IV.
See for instance, this response
to Juan Cole's belated ex post facto discovery in March of 2008 that
the invasion of Iraq was a conspiracy! Whereas, the un co-opted,
or perhaps only the ordinary plebeians, protesting in the streets
seem to know that even in 2001-2003,
before it became a fait accompli.

An
example of someone who is unabashedly an imperialist, like the
Afghani-born neocon Administrator of
Afghanistan and Iraq, Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad,
and Pakistani-born neocon Ambassador of Pakistan and Hudson
Institute Fellow,
Hon. Husain Haqqani, is the pathetic war-mongering native-informant
son of the distinguished Iranian Sufi-Muslim scholar Prof. Seyyed
Hossein Nasr, Dr.
Vali Nasr. This pathetic excuse for a
hominid, like all the rest of the war-mongers, is routinely published
by the Council on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs magazine and is
the Iranian version of Islamophobe Daniel
Pipes
cheerleading the mantra of “clash of civilizations”
( see for instance Foreign Affairs article: “When the Shiites
Rise” reprinted at http://www.mafhoum.com/press9/282S26.htm
).

In
my experience, between the two categories, they together often color
even the lenses of well meaning Iranians in the West, never mind the
mostly ignorant Westerners, especially the Americans. There are
numerous Iranians I know who don't seem to comprehend modernity at
all. In fact, sadly speaking, despite their high education and
affluent lifestyles, I have found them to be no different in their
perceptions than many an ordinary mainstream American. What is most
pathetic, I find that they have a few things also in common with
“Uncle Tom” in their apologetics. Similar patterns,
unfortunately enough, also exist among the expat. communities of
Pakistanis, Arabs, Turks, and other minority immigrant communities
whose native nations are under assault by their adopted nation.

The
best example of the latter is the well known whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds of Turkish/Iranian origin, and the new darling of
Western dissent. To illustrate the convoluted interlocking of
dissent-space with the pernicious bringing “democracy”
aims of empire, the co-founder of the aforementioned
VelvetRevlution.us
is among Sibel Edmonds most ardent exponents as the founder of
bradblog.com
where he prominently features her travails. Here are my two letters
of March
18
and March
27,
2008 to Sibel Edmonds regarding her whistleblowing-revelations.
Indeed, I was recently accused by an MIT co-alumnus for not being
patriotic to America, for not being grateful enough to America for
providing me with much success (Preface).
The master social science of manufacturing
consent and dissent
can victimize and/or co-opt even the smartest of people under its
Hegelian
Dialectics of Deception.

Below
are some contrarian but rather humble writings from Project
Humanbeingsfirst pertinent to Iran. These differ from the
aforementioned acclaimed authors' in their initial
premise, which automatically leads to acutely
differentiating war-mongering aggressors from their pathetic victims,
and higher order independent variables from lower order dependent
variables in the calculus of foreign policies of conquest vs. rights
to self-defense and exercise of self-determination. These also keep
in mind the pithy maxim attributed to the Head of the CIA for
Counter-Intelligence Operations from 1954-1974, James Jesus Angleton:
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state”.
This maxim is true for ALL states, but more so for the
sole-superpower out for “full spectrum dominance”
in cold blood.

Note
that these few writings are only a sampling of the perspectives being
brought to bear on global crises. All of Project Humanbeingsfirst's
work covers modernity,
and beleaguered Iran, like beleaguered
Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, the
entire Brzezinski's “Global Zone of Percolating Violence”
in Central Asia, and also of course the United States people, is an
integral part of that as its victim. Also note that Iran has just
proposed,
in a very small measure, what was outlined
in the Missing Link in August 2007 and the Press Release May 2008 (see below).

I
hope this alternate perspective is useful to you. One does not have
to agree with all points of detail in these writings in order to
benefit from them. If one only perused what one generally agreed
with, it would shortly reduce one to merely reading and quoting one's
own self (as G. Edward Griffin puts it). FYI, the author's bio is
here
in case anyone is interested.

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